This year has been pretty, well, boring. We didn't get to go far and we didn't get much of a break because Lani and I both worked in between holidays.
21 Dec (Monday)
22 (Tuesday)
- Work in the office
- Work in the office again
- Went to Chatswood during lunch to by an MS Surface Pro 4 for the office
- Guess what, work in the office again! But this time we had Ethan and Erin with us. And they happily ransacked the Lollies tables in the editorial department.
- Up early to participate in the CampINC event at Richmond.
- Ethan got to play with the kids from the other locals. They played soccer and some parlor games, but they spent most of their time in the playground.
- I got to play half-court basketball with ka Jay Beltran and the KADIWAs and Binhis.
- It's Boxing Day Sale so we went to the Red Yard, Auburn to do same shopping. Sports shirts and shorts were selling for $1 each. Great bargain.
- We also ended up watching a movie - Alvin & the Chimpmunks - at Reading Cinema.
- Morning was spent at the church doing paper works and attending meetings
- In the afternoon, we went to Central Coast because I was going to perform a duty at church that night.
- We went early so we can spend time in The Entrance beach. Ethan and Erin had a short swim in the enclosed pool, played in the sand at the beach, played in the Mardi Gras playground, and went on some of the rides at the carnival.
- Lani and I went to worship service nearby to perform our duties.
- We got back home past 10pm.
- I woke up very to pickup the Ibanez JS 100 guitar that I purchased off Ebay the day prior. The guy lived in Macquarie Fields which was a good 50kms away.
- Got back home around 9am and stayed there with the kids for most of the day.
- Attended the officers meeting at the church from 6pm.
- Then Lani and I went to Reading Cinema to catch the last showing of Hunger Games
- Worked in the office. I installed 3 Dell PowerEdge servers and remove 3 olders ones from our server room rack all by myself. Tiring! Also upgraded our VM infrastructure to version 6.
- Worked in the office
- Attended the evening worship service
- Drove Hansel & Krista home to Chatswood after the service and had dinner at their place
- Work from home for most of the day
- Late afternoon, Papa and I drove to Emerton to collect the 2 letchons for our church year-end gathering.
- In the evening, we all convened in the church for our year-end prayer
- It was followed by the boodle-flight dinner where Ethan "borrowed" rice from ate Maica.
- We stayed and had videoke till 1am.
- Before retiring to bed I had to do a bit of work again, doing my routine data deployment.
- Woke up late and stayed at home to play with the kids.
- Krista and Hansel visited us and brought yummy Kare Kare.
- We watched Star Wars 7 on TV while the kids played.
- Spent the night at church to help in the Special Guarding. We had BBQ and videoke till 12midnight.
- Went to Westfield Parramatta for a bit but stayed home the rest of the day.
- Spent mostly at Church
- There was an Evangelical Mission in the evening, so we were there till late.
And that was it. Short and sweet!
